How our bodies adapt to extreme temperatures – until it gets too hotMon, 31 Aug 2026 15:00:00 +0000 No matter where you’re from, there are things you can do to cope better with extreme temperatures. But it takes work to stop our bodies’ adaptations from slipping backwards over winter, and there are limits to how far we can go | |
Should we all be taking low doses of lithium to prevent Alzheimer’s?Mon, 31 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Animal studies have shown that lithium orotate could help stave off dementia, and a human trial is about to start to see if the effects hold. Columnist Alice Klein takes a look at the benefits and downsides of lithium | |
Healed fang wound found on 520-million-year-old apex predatorFri, 28 Aug 2026 14:00:00 +0000 Something took a bite out of one of the biggest predators in Cambrian seas, an extraordinary fossil shows – and it could well be cannibalism | |
NASA’s huge Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope is about to launchFri, 28 Aug 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope, which launches on 30 August, will observe space with the same detail as the Hubble Space Telescope, but over a much larger area | |
Fastest star ever spotted at the centre of our galaxyFri, 28 Aug 2026 10:48:00 +0000 A newfound star called S301 is both the fastest ever seen and the closest to a supermassive black hole –and it could make bafflingly difficult tests of gravity possible at last | |
Where and when to see 2027’s ‘solar eclipse of the century’Fri, 28 Aug 2026 10:00:00 +0000 The total solar eclipse on 2 August 2027 is due to be the longest one until the year 2114, and researchers, eclipse chasers and tourists alike are on the edge of their seats | |
Exclusive video of world’s first echidna puggle to be born at a universityFri, 28 Aug 2026 08:32:44 +0000 Echidnas are a difficult animal to breed in captivity, but scientists in Sydney have now managed it, which could improve our understanding of the evolution of pregnancy in mammals | |
Einstein thought time dilation was both real and not – he was rightFri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 What even is time? Columnist Karmela Padavic-Callaghan takes on this mind-bending question by exploring the proof we have that time dilation is both a physical phenomenon and a psychological one | |
Read an extract from Chanda Prescod-Weinstein’s The Edge of Space-TimeFri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 The opening chapter to the New Scientist Book Club's read for September sees Chanda Prescod-Weinstein explore what we gain when we look at the universe from the margins | |
‘Thinking about the edges of space-time can help build a better world’Fri, 28 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein, New Scientist columnist and author of the September read for the New Scientist Book Club, The Edge of Space-Time, on why the big questions in physics matter so much | |